A few beer we drank in Vietnam.
Saigon red label, green label, Special. The best among them is the Special, more refined and round.
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Notice the difference between the 2 bottles? They were stored very cold, one the them was tapped below the bottle before opening, the one without tapped, the beer was still half frozen, the way how the Vietnamese preserved a cold beer.
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Tiger beer from Singapore
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Dai Viet is a dark ale style beer, brewed in Thai Binh.
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Thanks @naf. I tried the red Saigon last night, marginally better than the green. They also had the special so will give that a go. Anyway I’ve found a good looking craft beer place near where I’m staying. I’ll look out for the Huda.

This room is extremely warm and small. Elderly regulars often eat lunch and sit around for hours. They seemed to look at me a lot, probably because this room is usually occupied by regulars and not tourists. The tourists enter the main entrance and sit in the very beautiful hall in the other section.

Last night I shared a 2014 GI Bourbon County and an Evil Twin Christmas Eve in a New York Hotel Room from 2015. The Bourbon County is delicious and aging nicely. The Evil Twin is at that point that it needs to be drank.

Got a litre bottle of Wild Wave pale ale to go (back row next to the bubbly bottles). My alcohol consumption took a hit unexpectedly. I had planned to start drinking the bubbly yesterday but had to postpone.

Went to this highest rated craft beer pub. The beers were OK, staff were great. The pub itself is also nice, if far from the city centre, but once you make it out there you are within walking distant to 2 other nice (brew) pubs.

A little craft beer bar within walking distance from my lodging.
The nice barkeeper gave us the Tripel (#10 on the beer menu) as well. At home I drink Westmalle Tripel but this Korean version was not too bad.

Thanks for the research, it’s very kind. I will check the list out and try and get to one tomorrow

I went to a bia hoi tonight. The beer is quite weak but it’s very cheap and it makes for very convivial drinking. The atmosphere made it the closest thing I’ve found to a British pub on this Asia trip.

Gold always work in Asia. I remembered husband tasting a black Vietnamese beer, he said it was better than a normal one, I thought it was too bitter. ( I think we found it in a fancy supermarket, in some mall).

We had this “Christmas beer” during the NY. As the bottle said, “hints of clove and caramel”.